Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her
novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As
a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography of
the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker, Eddy. In One
of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize winner. After a year at the state
university, a young man unsuccessfully tries to bring culture to
his Nebraska town in turn-of-the-century novel. Bound to both the
soil and a religion he feels is shallow, he finds World War I an
escape.